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Someone attending these meetings needs to point out some facts to these misguided people. There is already, and has been for several years, a REDUCED DEER HARVEST. The harvest has gone down by nearly 50% from 211,000 in 2005 to only 126,000 in 2010. How much more reduced can it be and still...

I just hate it when I get wound up and then forget things! Last year there were nearly 400,000 licenses sold and only 127,000 deer harvested, but only 46,000 of those were antlered deer . That is not trophy antlered deer, just any deer with more than just spikes for antlers. That number is as...

One of the main things I find rather disturbing about this whole discussion is that many on both sides, but more on the NR side, seem to equate the right to hunt their land every year to mean hunting is not hunting if they are not able to kill a buck every year. Hunting is NOT ABOUT HARVESTING...

I don't believe that you will see the DNR take on the role of villain by pushing for a sales tax increase just so that they can get a very small part of the overall increase. Just remember that when the increase comes around it will mean several hundreds or thousands of our take home dollars...

I just spent several days in Rochester Mn and the Pine Lake thing was all over the news there. If I remember it correctly they said that sharp shooters had killed 330 deer in the area and that there were other farmers around that had shooting permits that were valid until the end of the month...

I believe that this whole thing about the 50 yards of the house thing is being taken way out of context. As I understood it that was to allow the homeowners in the suburbs to put out bird or squirrel feeders in their yards not so that they could dump 50 bushels of corn there to draw deer to...

How did a discussion about trail-cam baiting get to be a put down of CRP and farmers?:o Hardcore I think you might have mixed things up a little. If the farmer wants the maximum return on his dollar he would farm the ground to the max totally disregarding any and all conservation practices. He...

Wow this is hard for me to believe, 22 pages of mostly self justification and attacking the people that you elected to make these kind of decisions for you on a volunteer basis. There have been many issues brought up that were a part of this decision to support this bill and many of you are...

For those NR hunters who actually feel that they are contributing $MILLIONS to the Iowa economy that takes a lot of gas and pizza in a week. With our drastically declining harvest and population numbers and a success ratio of only around 30% for resident hunters, and the ever increasing access...

All this sounds like furtrade and TRESSPASSER very likely wear the same skin or at the very least are related. Perhaps he is the one who said "I would like to introduce my father, uncle, and brother" and there is only one other male in the room. ;) Seems to be a lot of stupid misinformation...

Just a thought, was this trespasser a local gent? If so maybe after the CO and you get done with him you could post his name and where he is from so maybe some of the rest of us in the general area can also keep track of him and his wayward ways. It never hurts to spread information about...

I don't quite understand, if the DNR had not under estimated the winter kill what would they have done differently to increase the buck kill? Would they have issued fewer licenses and if they had wouldn't that have still resulted in the same number of bucks killed? Would they have issued more...

I personally get real tired of hearing about way too many deer in SE Iowa. I live and work in SE Iowa and drive 60 plus miles each day through Davis, Wapello, Jefferson, and Van Buren counties on highways, blacktop and gravel roads. I live next to a large public hunting area and I will tell...

The thing that I see as so sad about this issue is that this promoting of the deer hunting in Iowa will soon be a mute point. People will soon realize that this is all a lot of hype with very little actual trophy potential. I just checked the IDNR site for reported deer killed and as of this...

I personally would like to see this season be more of a primitive weapon season like it was at the beginning of the early ml season. How ever with retaining the current restrictions, such as only 7500 licenses, 9 day duration, only gun any sex tags allowed to purchase, and no NR licenses...

Last of the Dog Men ( or Dog Soldiers) I'm not sure which. Has Tom Berenger in it and he finds a lost tribe of Cheyene living in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Also vote for Jerimah Johnson and the Mountain Men, or the mini series Centenial. Don't forget the original Rambo.

I agree with you, but in I really didn't express it very well. Part of my point is if MOST bucks will never reach the 180 level. How, as just observers in the field, can any hunter say which bucks do have that potential, so we should pass them and let them get older and which ones can't get...

First simple answer, call the power company and ask them if it is ok to lean a ladder stand against their pole. It belongs to them unless they charged the landowner for it when they placed it there. As for the rest it would certainly be best to find another route into your area. If there is...

How much did your Mother influence your genetic potential? How much did the mare influence Secretariat's genetics? How big was the rack on Goliath's sire? How much influence was the genetics of all 4 Grand Parents of John F Kennedy and his future generations? Some genetic traits are dominate and...